Word: trapping
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Baldish, button-chinned Arthur Brisbane leads a quiet life consisting mostly of reading, writing and real estate. But lately he had an experience which moved him deeply. In the pantry of his house he came upon a mouse caught in a trap. Next day he made eight paragraphs out of the incident, some of the best he ever wrote, for his Hearst colyum. Arthur Brisbane's mouse story...
...trap has been sprung, a mouse is caught, the wire pressing with cruel force across its backbone, just above the hind legs. The front legs, neck, head and shoulders are free...
...cannot be left to suffer all night, until some servant shall dispose of it. You lift the trap and the creature, back broken, raises on its fore legs, biting in all directions, seeking to reach the hand that would end its misery. Placed, with the trap on a whisk broom, for convenient carrying, its little teeth bite fiercely at the broom...
When Karl Abt, poor workman, saw his old enemy Baron Mangien sneaking into somebody else's Berlin house on Christmas Eve, he smelled a rat, hoped he could trap it. Sure enough he caught the Baron with another man's wife, blackmailed him into changing clothes and pocketbooks for 48 hours. Revenge for social injustice was all Abt wanted, but somehow the Baron's fur coat and well-lined purse made life more complicated than ever. All his puzzling problems were solved when the lady's husband shot him. The Baron thanked his stars...
...last week David O'Shea sat in his cell without speaking, without moving. He never confessed. On the scaffold the trap was sprung by an executioner from England, a Mr. Pierpont...